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Must-have guides designed to introduce students and teachers to key
topics and authors. T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most
important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and
commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be
profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with
his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This
book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's
life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in
which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced
by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and
America, and how he became a key cultural figure on both sides of
the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing
and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further
reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction
to T. S. Eliot.
First Published in 2000. Nearly everyone who addresses T. S.
Eliot's imaginative and critical work must acknowledge the
importance of music in thematic and formal terms. This collection
of original essays thoroughly explores this aspect of his work from
a number of perspectives.
Contents: Introduction Part I: Eliot and Popular Musical Culture A Jazz-Banjorine, not a Lute:Eliot and Popular Music Before the Waste Land. David Chinitz Culture, Race, Rhythm: Sweeney Agonistes and the Live Jazz Break. Kevin McNeilly Protective Colouring: Modernism and Blackface Minstrelsy in the Bolo Poems. Jonathan Gill Thinking With Your Ears: Rhapsody, Prelude, Song in Eliot's Early Lyrics. John Xiros Cooper Part II: You Are The Music Eliot's Impossible Music, Brad Bucknell Complex Intimacies: The Music of Four Quartets. George D. Gopen Eliot's Ars Musica Poetica: Sources in French Symbolism. John Adames Part III: Eliot and the Composers The Pattern from the Palimpsest: Convergences of Eliot, Tippett and Shakespeare. Suzanne Robinson 'My God, what has sound got to do with music?': Interdisciplinarity in Eliot and Ives. J. Robert Browning Orchestrating the Waste Land: Wagner, Leitmotiv, and the Play of Passion. Margaret E. Dana A Tale of Two Artists: Eliot, Stravinsky and Disciplinary (IM)Politics. Jayme Stayer
Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and
work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal
spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately
addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social
disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost
immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded
canonical status as a work that promised a personal harmony
divorced from the painful disharmonies of the emerging postwar
world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and
editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce
established social structures during a period of painful political
transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the
public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood.
It will become an essential reference work for all interested in a
wider understanding of Eliot and of Anglo-American cultural
relations.
Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in
opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For
John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to
capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in
their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the
modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on
everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and
economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial
age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound
historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and
experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist
market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very
market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this
broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this
provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors,
including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes.
Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in
opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For
John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to
capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in
their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the
modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on
everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and
economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial
age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound
historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and
experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist
market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very
market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this
broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this
provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors,
including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes.
Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and
work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal
spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately
addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social
disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost
immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded
canonical status as a work that promised a personal harmony
divorced from the painful disharmonies of the emerging postwar
world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and
editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce
established social structures during a period of painful political
transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the
public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood.
It will become an essential reference work for all interested in a
wider understanding of Eliot and of Anglo-American cultural
relations.
T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the
twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture
and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential.
Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand
the course of modern literature. This 2006 book provides the
perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as
well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John
Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual
climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he
became a key cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The
continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought
are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is
the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot.
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